I love ❤️ watching your channel everyday!! Not only do I get my daily fix of vintage computers from when I was a kid. But I get to watch an extremely handsome, 💯 husband material, stud-muffin! 😍
Love this channel. It's like watching the satisfying thrift find but better because you go thru everything and show it off and fix it if necessary. Your channel will go far in the future. Lots of 40 something guys/gals out there (me included) that appreciate this stuff.
@@miketech1024 I just had it pop up as a suggestion and... you're pretty cute! So you get a sub just for that. I mean the old computer stuff as well, but you're better looking than LGR! [sorry Clint]
I enjoy your videos. Partly for nostalgia (I was heavy into computers when I was a teen in the mid-90s and still work in tech) but also because of the clean, slow, methodical progress of the videos and lack of flashy editing. I am way too old for the "yo yo yo wazaaaaap" type videos that most people seem to want to make, and your tempo is a nice and enjoyable contrast to those! Keep up the good work!
This is a channel I'll definitely be watching more on.... The fact that all the machines he picked up are considered special makes me feel good about rescuing P4s
P4's are nice! That's the first CPU from Intel to support VT-x (hardware virtualization). These machines are special to a lot of people, myself included. Looks like you have some really interesting videos. I've subscribed!
@@miketech1024 thank you!.. Though admittedly i haven't uploaded in several months i feel i could probably do some videos on perhaps restoring my new Sony Vaio and Alienware M7700
Hell yeah, a new video from my favorite hot stud! I could watch videos of you repairing old PCs all day. I love how carefully and intelligently you handle these old systems. Another excellent video! My first PC had this exact case - it was a 486. I have good memories of playing Theme Hospital, Rollercoaster, Doom, and so on. Keep up the excellent work, Mike!"
Goes to show that the retro computing scene is still going strong. Next time I come across an old computer I'll have to video the process. Subscribed!😀
Mike, you are awesome. I have been watching and enjoying, but this is my first comment. Thanks so much for reviving and giving love to all these old computers! Makes me so fondly remember building PCs with my Dad in the 90's and playing all my favorite old games and simulators :) Gonna subscribe now, can't believe I haven't yet!
Thanks! These machines also take me back to those times, my Dad and I playing with hardware we’d find in the trash. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
18:18 "But you know what? I'm gonna leave it on there!" You MONSTER! How could you deprive us of "The Peel™"?? Just joking, as with all your videos, you have an amazing knowledge and vibe with retro tech! I'm looking forward to your future videos! Also want to point out that I love the rainbow watch face!
I remember the first time I stuck a screwdriver into a power supply while it was plugged in and powered off, like it was yesterday. August 13, 1997. My Pentium 66mhz system never powered up again.
LOL. I had to replay the "bath" scene to double check... I saw what you did there with the rubber ducky! A great video Mike. Is so relaxing just to sit here on a Saturday morning, cup of tea in hand, cat on the lap... watching you take apart / describe these beautiful machines so well. Great job, and thanks. :)
Also.. I'm amazed at how much knowledge you have in your head. I would never have remembered anything about how to format that B: drive floppy properly. Those big 5.25 floppies I guess were right on the edge of being legacy when I was a kid. But still, I do remember formatting drives like this.
Seeing the Novell logo gave me a bad flashback to the late 90’s. Couldn’t wait to get rid of the netware server and install Linux! Fun memories, thanks for the vid!
The first machine has a Tyan S1590S super socket 7 motherboard. The first motherboard I bought when I got into computers. That board is long gone but I kept the box and software. I just purchased one off of eBay a few months ago. I also picked up an Enlight baby AT case too. Similar but not the exact case I used to have. Both reasonably priced. I also still have the original ATI Xpert 98 video card for that machine. I believe the Yamaha YMF719 ISA sound card I have is from that pc too. I’m in the process of rebuilding my old machine. I’m enjoying the videos. Thanks.
Looks like the pieces of wood you took out were used as a guide for whatever was being plugged into the back of the motherboard (probably the AT keyboard plug). The gap between the case and the motherboard was fair distance apart and this helped to guide the plug right in instead of being fiddled around with causing annoyance by the user.
Thank you so much!! These systems trigger some of my earliest and fondest memories of tinkering with them as a kid. It’s just an absolute blast getting to tinker with them again! Modern desktops and servers just don’t have the same magic to me.
Amd k62 500 in a 386 case.. First ever sleeper build, Netware was nearly allways used in colleges and schools in the UK the wood also looks like a school college workshop fix. thanks for the video.
The reliable "one screw wonder" technique for hard drive mounting has stood the test of time. My protégés have learned it from me, and they'll ensure it endures.
@@keithbrown7685 I don't teach a class, but I am available for hard drive mounting consultations. My rates are reasonable, and my results are legendary.
@@prozacgodretro Yeah but can you implement, say, a paper clip or twist-tie when there are no screws around? That would be an advanced course that you should teach. I'd do it myself, except I can't pull apart a new garbage bag. Can you believe that? : )
I've done it on plenty of Baby AT motherboards. Usually only one screw hole actually lines up with a threaded post. The rest are those annoying plastic stand-offs!
As long as you're not gonna be moving house, it'll stay together OK. Amazing how hard it is to get screws for mounting hard drives, even computer shops seem not to have them. Also amazing how easy they are to lose.
Thanks! Yeah seeing that VLB board in this state hurt my soul... Those batteries are pure evil… Fortunately it all looks repairable so I’m optimistic about the repair!
@@miketech1024 Old batteries are the bane of vintage PC collecting. Ni-Cd like to destroy motherboards and the non rechargeable lithium ones like to eat away at the case itself.
That third pc reminded me of those old sun burnt smoker's machines that would belong to some friend's relative. I'd open a pack of bleach wipes and wipe down everything before I'd touch anything. A boot floppy with MacAfee virus scan was also part of the routine.
The answer to the WHY of the foreign items near the AT keyboard connector is..Mechanical support or strain relief..sometimes wedged "Just so" the keyboard would work..else it would not.
Really loving this stuff. Brings back memories. 16GB hard drive with Windows 98. The most power and memory you will ever need! Thank you for posting. Love and blessings from Ontario Canada.
I think you're already getting more confident in front of the camera and with the commentary, looking forward to all your content from the rest of the massive haul, channel growth is good already. 👍
Very interesting. And very nice finds, it is so rare to find AT cases in such a good shape w/o yellowing. And AT mainboards with AGP are not very common neither. The duck in the bath made me well laugh :D
Not sure if I mentioned it already - the beeps when you first powered on the Tyan build is a S3 GPU specific beep that happens if you don't plug in a monitor. IIRC the last one to have this beep is the AGP Trio 3D/2X.
2:40 some people pet their cats and dogs, Mike pets his motherboard :) 4:10 I had this graphics card! Ah, memories :) First computer, 1997. It had a 233 MHz, 64 MB ram, a 6GB HDD, and a DVD drive that was sort of working, sort of not. I was 8 and hooked right away. 5:21 oh, interesting. Never seen them floating on 1 screw. It was either both or neither. 7:28 as the saying goes, "Do as I say, not as I do" :) 8:08 funny :) 17:45 ... well, glad to say you'd get a kick out of me. Legally blonde. 20:06 oh that's dumb. Really really dumb. 24:09 hello, yellowed goodness! 36:33 ouch. That HDD is heartbreaking.
The piece of wood probably holds the keyboard connector in place. I had an issue way back with my 486. I would frequently move the PC and disconnect/reconnect the keyboard, and the connector came loose and didn't have a proper contact to the motherboard. I had to wiggle it around to a certain position so it would work. This probably serves the same purpose.
11:30 spring eject mechanism. Oh and that "slow beep" 🤣 that got me.. have you btw noticed / checked the detected amount of ram before edge clean / after? No? Check the vid 😉
MikeTech, I'm glad to see you're finally tearing these suckers down. It's like vehicle fixes and restores. I have brothers who do that sort of stuff, seen some on RUclips as well. I like it, same reason I like to watch computers get dissected and maybe revived. Bring it on!!!!!
As for the date written on that last tower with no motherboard, some countries write the date in that format (year, month, day), although personally I like the date in that format because the numbers flow from most significant to least significant, just like hours, minutes, seconds.
45:42 An American judging date formats, now that beats everything! 😂 FYI that's the Chinese date format (albeit with 2 digits for the year instead of 4), which also happens to be the ISO one. It's a convenient format because it allows for easy sorting by date. That's my first comment on one of your videos, keep doing what you do, it's relaxing to watch, but also informative on the repair side of things.
37:14 🤣 do not expect any hdd to be good after it makes such a horrendous sound on the first init after a millenium 41:20 😱 wow it really survived 👏👍 42:00 if the drive has 2 heads, it is 99% it is 1.2Megs (5" one)
0:35 Funny you should say terrifying sound... When I was a kid and recordable CD's were new, I bought one without knowing anything about it. I just thought "blank cd, like blank floppy right?" So I got it home and threw it into my dad's computer. It spun up. And kept spinning up. And kept spinning up. It got so fast that I started freaking out and ejected the drive. The drive had spun the disc up so fast that when the tray opened, the disc was still spinning in the tray. It became unstable and shot out of the tray, landing on the floor and proceeding to spin a few more times.
When I had my first PC, the cpu was a K6 233. It got so hot I changed it for a MMX just a week later. The store were I bought it asked me what was the white paste I used on the heatsink, they had never seen this :) The explanation is electronic is one of my hobbies, so it was logical for me to use thermal paste. Things have changed ...
The progress indicator in dd may be just optional, "--status=progress" to get it , or something similar. It's been years I didn't see a Knoppix running :) Since you have many computers, I suggest you get a Lan bootable network card, for example a 3Com 3C590 PCI, and boot on network from it . You can boot a full Linux Systemrescuecd, a dos floppy image. a memtest floppy image, Plop boot manager to boot from USB, even on old computers, etc.. Of course, you need a dhcp / tftp / nfs or apache on any Linux/BSD machine.
I usually use the ‘status=progress’ flag on recent versions of dd, but this old version didn’t like it. I do like the idea of having a boot server. Good thing I have a full 25U server rack at the house!
@@miketech1024 It should be enough, I just use an old laptop hidden in a closet :) I forget to write you can have a multiboot using boot on lan, so you can choose.
A trip down memory lane, my computer experience started with 286 and Dos 3 ish, I remember these 386 internals well, lots of happy hours spent tinkering with this type of machine back in the day.
Great video, I found myself checking your channel throughout the week to see if I'd missed anything after that load of relics you got last video. I'm quite impressed by how far back and how extensive your knowledge is. And yet, you look like you're 10 years younger than me, what gives! I loved the rubber ducky and your Patreon tier labels lol! Also whoever's sick I hope they got well quickly!
Thanks! I became intensely interested in the technical side of computers at around 5 years old, so I’ve been in tech nearly my entire life. Don’t worry, the ‘Get Well Soon’ card is for the battery-damaged VLB motherboard. It needed a little support in this trying time. 😂
@@miketech1024 I'm enjoying every bit of your videos! It's very nostalgic but also a ton of things I've never seen before or I've never seen done before. Lol the VLB board was very sick!
Hope Nana's video card becomes a recurring thing lol. Also they make modern coin cell battery adaptors that fit into the socket of a Dallas RTC, so there's no need to buy a brand new Dallas RTC, meaning it more or less will function like any other PC at that point.
00:23 At my workplace in the early '90s my supervisor's office computer used that same case. The brand name on it was Belmont, LOL. They must have used a million different brand names on that case.
I am amazed with your "no fear" attitude when your playing with these machines lol....... I would never play around like you do..... keep making vids please.
11:13 I take offense to floppy drives holding my disks at ransom, it's easier to get a CD out of a stuck drive, just need a paper clip, but those floppy drives are thieves sometimes. I missed grabbing an old Dell CRT on Wednesday. Nothing fancy, black case, early 2000''s. Passed it on the way to work and when I came back through someone had thrown it face first onto the curb and smashed it. Love to know who did that, it looks like it was a nice little 15" monitor before that, still bummed about it. I am running out of space in my little duplex for this stuff tho, between car and computer parts.
Oof, what kind of person would do that to an innocent CRT? Somehow I have only 3 CRT monitors to my name (other than my AIO systems), with one being a 15” Dell. I would love to find more!
@@miketech1024 A lot of people smash stuff, I've saved things from being smashed / shot before.I have two CRT's. They came out of a ditch, one is a Viewsonic 19" and the other is some oddball off brand 17". The 17" has road rash on the face, but the screen isn't damaged. The View Sonic needs repairs, the case is kinda falling apart, it also had slugs on the screen when I got it. They weren't happy about being evicted. I used to have a lot more but a certain deceased family member who shall remain unnamed threw them away along with a lot of other rare PC parts I had despite having me pay to leave them in a corner of a disused room for years. Haven't really built up the collection since then, too bummed missing my 19" trinitron 😆
@@DeadReckon I wish someone had saved me from my own stupidity when I threw a whole working computer out with the garbage, just because I didn't want to store it. I had the room. The monitor was 17". I forget the make, some reputable brand. It was all working fine. Don't know wtf was the matter with me. :(
@@keithbrown7685 Used to be a time this stuff was disposable, I hung onto stuff because it's nostalgic for me. I really need to build me a Pentium MMX era system but I can't justify the absurd cost of parts these days.
The dead battery ought not to be a show-stopper. Just try saving and exiting the BIOS. Should work. You might have to set the hard drive types but it auto-detects so that's no problem. You should be able to get it booting no problem, you'd just be left with having to do the same thing every time you boot it.
@mike: about 5.25" drive - some drives you cannot close without floppy inside, it wasnt crysty it is working as it should, so it is normal for some drive that you cant close it without floppy :) I saw you were keep trying to close it without the disk, and you could damage it that way :) I was also stunned when i saw first 5.25" drive which was like that :)
Amazing! That's a superb ratio of working vs non working stuff! Looking fordward to the motherboard repair video. About the weird memory placement on the first PC, I'm pretty sure those AT cases can have the motherboard tray removed, they usually have one or two screws on the back. Too bad there were no ISA soundcards, no need for sound on those "office" machines xD!
Thanks! Unfortunately this case has the motherboard tray riveted into place. The crusty 486 case luckily has a removable tray, but I realized that after the fact. That is one of the many features I miss about AT cases!
@@miketech1024 Wow! I thought just the drive bays were riveted, that's common, but hey that's a great SS7 AT motherboard, it even looks like a "retro sleeper" build haha! Just for fun I'm doing something similar with an AT Pentium III motherboard and a Socket 370 P3 @ 1ghz on a slocket, from the outside it looks like a 386 😁😁
Loved that rubber duck in the bath 😂 BTW, about the mouse - while serial mice are hot-pluggable, they were not PnP, so you would have had to do some sort of search for new devices, or restarted the computer after plugging in the mouse. I think that was the reason Windows didn't recognize it while it worked just fine in DOS.
Regarding the serial mouse; it wouldn't be detected until rebooting as the driver is loaded then; it's not plug and play like you can get by with a PS/2 mouse.
Dang, you voided the warranties on all of that 30 year old RAM by taking it out of the motherboard. lol In all honesty, I love your videos. Fantastic haul, and I can't wait to see what mysteries the other PCs hold! Luckily no spiders this time!
the slow beeping sounded likeg a Heart monitor. would have been funny if it suddenly went to one long beep, and the PCU burned out with much sparkling and magic smoke. "Ricky Ticky Ting- The valiant is dead!"
can say I have a few k6 500s myself, they were great cpus. Still love that GUI bios. sadly they didn't catch on, oddly I didn't see a similar interface again until I got a modern system.. I hate those batteries, I lost a stack of motherboards to these things because they leaked before I could get back to where I had the boards stored. nice memories with scandisk, a lot of time spent looking at that over the years lol. that was a nice keyboard passthrough, sadly I wish more of the at cases had them.
You have an understated confidence in what you do and your videos are well paced and well narrated mister. Very enjoyable 👍🏻🙏
Thank you so much!
I love ❤️ watching your channel everyday!! Not only do I get my daily fix of vintage computers from when I was a kid. But I get to watch an extremely handsome, 💯 husband material, stud-muffin! 😍
Thanks! I enjoy your teardowns.
Thank you so much!!
Love this channel. It's like watching the satisfying thrift find but better because you go thru everything and show it off and fix it if necessary. Your channel will go far in the future. Lots of 40 something guys/gals out there (me included) that appreciate this stuff.
Thank you so much!!
@@miketech1024 I just had it pop up as a suggestion and... you're pretty cute! So you get a sub just for that. I mean the old computer stuff as well, but you're better looking than LGR! [sorry Clint]
Watching you work on those computers while I type away at my terminal consoles is oddly therapeutic
I enjoy your videos. Partly for nostalgia (I was heavy into computers when I was a teen in the mid-90s and still work in tech) but also because of the clean, slow, methodical progress of the videos and lack of flashy editing. I am way too old for the "yo yo yo wazaaaaap" type videos that most people seem to want to make, and your tempo is a nice and enjoyable contrast to those! Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much!
This is a channel I'll definitely be watching more on.... The fact that all the machines he picked up are considered special makes me feel good about rescuing P4s
P4's are nice! That's the first CPU from Intel to support VT-x (hardware virtualization). These machines are special to a lot of people, myself included. Looks like you have some really interesting videos. I've subscribed!
@@miketech1024 thank you!.. Though admittedly i haven't uploaded in several months i feel i could probably do some videos on perhaps restoring my new Sony Vaio and Alienware M7700
@@lukedavis436 Can’t wait to see it!
P4s were good at certain predictable tasks, hence why I think a lot of office desktops and laptops used them.
Love your videos. I miss all the sounds computers made back in the day. So refreshing watching you tare into vintage computers.
Hey Mike, another great video. Loved the rubber duck @35:06! And a lack of wildlife.
I LOVE vintage computers too! Especially 386, 486... I really really envy you. Thank you for sharing your enjoyable experiences.
If anyone deserves that 200 PC haul its you man. Content for years :)
Old days. Love those sounds. :)
I wish your channel infinite growth.
Hell yeah, a new video from my favorite hot stud!
I could watch videos of you repairing old PCs all day. I love how carefully and intelligently you handle these old systems. Another excellent video! My first PC had this exact case - it was a 486. I have good memories of playing Theme Hospital, Rollercoaster, Doom, and so on. Keep up the excellent work, Mike!"
Goes to show that the retro computing scene is still going strong. Next time I come across an old computer I'll have to video the process. Subscribed!😀
Mike, you are awesome. I have been watching and enjoying, but this is my first comment. Thanks so much for reviving and giving love to all these old computers! Makes me so fondly remember building PCs with my Dad in the 90's and playing all my favorite old games and simulators :) Gonna subscribe now, can't believe I haven't yet!
Thanks! These machines also take me back to those times, my Dad and I playing with hardware we’d find in the trash. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Be still, my heart! Knoppix to the rescue! xx
Those Derek minitowers! So nostalgic. I built many systems using those,
18:18 "But you know what? I'm gonna leave it on there!" You MONSTER! How could you deprive us of "The Peel™"??
Just joking, as with all your videos, you have an amazing knowledge and vibe with retro tech! I'm looking forward to your future videos!
Also want to point out that I love the rainbow watch face!
I’d feel kinda bad for being the one to peel it off after all these years. 🤣 Thanks!
I remember the first time I stuck a screwdriver into a power supply while it was plugged in and powered off, like it was yesterday.
August 13, 1997. My Pentium 66mhz system never powered up again.
I love all of these videos start to finish. thank you.
LOL. I had to replay the "bath" scene to double check... I saw what you did there with the rubber ducky!
A great video Mike. Is so relaxing just to sit here on a Saturday morning, cup of tea in hand, cat on the lap... watching you take apart / describe these beautiful machines so well. Great job, and thanks. :)
Thanks so much!
Also.. I'm amazed at how much knowledge you have in your head. I would never have remembered anything about how to format that B: drive floppy properly. Those big 5.25 floppies I guess were right on the edge of being legacy when I was a kid. But still, I do remember formatting drives like this.
Seeing the Novell logo gave me a bad flashback to the late 90’s. Couldn’t wait to get rid of the netware server and install Linux! Fun memories, thanks for the vid!
I’ve never had the Novell ‘experience’ myself, but I’ve heard stories LOL. Thanks!
The first machine has a Tyan S1590S super socket 7 motherboard. The first motherboard I bought when I got into computers. That board is long gone but I kept the box and software. I just purchased one off of eBay a few months ago. I also picked up an Enlight baby AT case too. Similar but not the exact case I used to have. Both reasonably priced. I also still have the original ATI Xpert 98 video card for that machine. I believe the Yamaha YMF719 ISA sound card I have is from that pc too. I’m in the process of rebuilding my old machine. I’m enjoying the videos. Thanks.
Looks like the pieces of wood you took out were used as a guide for whatever was being plugged into the back of the motherboard (probably the AT keyboard plug). The gap between the case and the motherboard was fair distance apart and this helped to guide the plug right in instead of being fiddled around with causing annoyance by the user.
..and stabilised the keyboard plug from the top
Loved this video. I could put these type of retro-tech exploration videos on repeat while I work and watch all day :D Thanks!
Hey Mike! I love your channel and 100% support what you do for these older systems.
Thank you so much!! These systems trigger some of my earliest and fondest memories of tinkering with them as a kid. It’s just an absolute blast getting to tinker with them again! Modern desktops and servers just don’t have the same magic to me.
Good video, enjoyed it all. I wanna see some of those laptops you got also lol.
Those ThinkPads are calling my name every day!
Amd k62 500 in a 386 case.. First ever sleeper build, Netware was nearly allways used in colleges and schools in the UK the wood also looks like a school college workshop fix. thanks for the video.
Very interesting retro systems, like!
The reliable "one screw wonder" technique for hard drive mounting has stood the test of time. My protégés have learned it from me, and they'll ensure it endures.
Do you teach a class on this? : )
@@keithbrown7685 I don't teach a class, but I am available for hard drive mounting consultations. My rates are reasonable, and my results are legendary.
@@prozacgodretro Yeah but can you implement, say, a paper clip or twist-tie when there are no screws around? That would be an advanced course that you should teach. I'd do it myself, except I can't pull apart a new garbage bag. Can you believe that? : )
I've done it on plenty of Baby AT motherboards. Usually only one screw hole actually lines up with a threaded post. The rest are those annoying plastic stand-offs!
As long as you're not gonna be moving house, it'll stay together OK. Amazing how hard it is to get screws for mounting hard drives, even computer shops seem not to have them. Also amazing how easy they are to lose.
Can't wait to see more from the haul and the repair video on that poor VLB motherboard. Hopefully you can revive it.
Thanks! Yeah seeing that VLB board in this state hurt my soul... Those batteries are pure evil… Fortunately it all looks repairable so I’m optimistic about the repair!
@@miketech1024 Old batteries are the bane of vintage PC collecting. Ni-Cd like to destroy motherboards and the non rechargeable lithium ones like to eat away at the case itself.
That third pc reminded me of those old sun burnt smoker's machines that would belong to some friend's relative. I'd open a pack of bleach wipes and wipe down everything before I'd touch anything. A boot floppy with MacAfee virus scan was also part of the routine.
The answer to the WHY of the foreign items near the AT keyboard connector is..Mechanical support or strain relief..sometimes wedged "Just so" the keyboard would work..else it would not.
Really loving this stuff. Brings back memories. 16GB hard drive with Windows 98. The most power and memory you will ever need! Thank you for posting. Love and blessings from Ontario Canada.
You should keep the motherboard in that case. The fact that it is unusual makes it unique.
I think you're already getting more confident in front of the camera and with the commentary, looking forward to all your content from the rest of the massive haul, channel growth is good already. 👍
Thanks!
Really enjoy watching the video. Keep up the amazing work Mike.
Thanks!
nice video, I remember one of the pc (amd) was like mine in late 90s,
These vids are a blast from the best.
Very interesting. And very nice finds, it is so rare to find AT cases in such a good shape w/o yellowing. And AT mainboards with AGP are not very common neither.
The duck in the bath made me well laugh :D
No bath is complete without one! 🙂
This is turning into one of my favorite channels. As a collector of old computers, I love your videos.
Thanks!!
Not sure if I mentioned it already - the beeps when you first powered on the Tyan build is a S3 GPU specific beep that happens if you don't plug in a monitor. IIRC the last one to have this beep is the AGP Trio 3D/2X.
2:40 some people pet their cats and dogs, Mike pets his motherboard :)
4:10 I had this graphics card! Ah, memories :) First computer, 1997. It had a 233 MHz, 64 MB ram, a 6GB HDD, and a DVD drive that was sort of working, sort of not. I was 8 and hooked right away.
5:21 oh, interesting. Never seen them floating on 1 screw. It was either both or neither.
7:28 as the saying goes, "Do as I say, not as I do" :)
8:08 funny :)
17:45 ... well, glad to say you'd get a kick out of me. Legally blonde.
20:06 oh that's dumb. Really really dumb.
24:09 hello, yellowed goodness!
36:33 ouch. That HDD is heartbreaking.
The piece of wood probably holds the keyboard connector in place. I had an issue way back with my 486. I would frequently move the PC and disconnect/reconnect the keyboard, and the connector came loose and didn't have a proper contact to the motherboard. I had to wiggle it around to a certain position so it would work. This probably serves the same purpose.
Excellent, So much hardware nostalgia. I upgraded so many computers of this era in the mid 1990s. Keep up the great work on the channel.
This video was sooooo relaxing to watch!
11:30 spring eject mechanism. Oh and that "slow beep" 🤣 that got me.. have you btw noticed / checked the detected amount of ram before edge clean / after? No? Check the vid 😉
MikeTech, I'm glad to see you're finally tearing these suckers down. It's like vehicle fixes and restores. I have brothers who do that sort of stuff, seen some on RUclips as well. I like it, same reason I like to watch computers get dissected and maybe revived.
Bring it on!!!!!
I remember the good old days when CD drives had headphone jacks!
PS - First time subscribbler!! Tee Hee! 😆
Thanks!!
"Hoopajooped" is now my new favorite technical term. Right up there with "Borked".
AvE has done innumerable damage to my personal lexicon. 🤣
Another awesome video 🎉
You're taking a long time to finish off that can of Pepsi, it'll be flat soon! 🤣But great videos, I really look forward to watching these. 😬
🤣 I found that can inside the wall while re-modeling my bathroom. Thanks!!
Good vid, with all those vintage computers you should have content for a while. Looking forward to seeing the channel grow.
Thanks!!
Excellent video. You make hardware repair and teardown entertaining even to an incurable software guy like me.
As for the date written on that last tower with no motherboard, some countries write the date in that format (year, month, day), although personally I like the date in that format because the numbers flow from most significant to least significant, just like hours, minutes, seconds.
Looks good! I forgot about the turbo button programming. Last saw those in person when I was in high school working at a local pc repair store.
45:42 An American judging date formats, now that beats everything! 😂
FYI that's the Chinese date format (albeit with 2 digits for the year instead of 4), which also happens to be the ISO one. It's a convenient format because it allows for easy sorting by date.
That's my first comment on one of your videos, keep doing what you do, it's relaxing to watch, but also informative on the repair side of things.
37:14 🤣 do not expect any hdd to be good after it makes such a horrendous sound on the first init after a millenium 41:20 😱 wow it really survived 👏👍 42:00 if the drive has 2 heads, it is 99% it is 1.2Megs (5" one)
sometimes those power supplies have to have a hard drive connected to register the correct power on the meter. Just FYI.
I got addicted to this channel pretty fast. « Things escalated quickly » XD
0:35 Funny you should say terrifying sound... When I was a kid and recordable CD's were new, I bought one without knowing anything about it. I just thought "blank cd, like blank floppy right?" So I got it home and threw it into my dad's computer. It spun up. And kept spinning up. And kept spinning up. It got so fast that I started freaking out and ejected the drive. The drive had spun the disc up so fast that when the tray opened, the disc was still spinning in the tray. It became unstable and shot out of the tray, landing on the floor and proceeding to spin a few more times.
🤣 This had me cackling to myself at dinner, now the whole restaurant is staring at me 🤣🤣
I really enjoy your videos! Your obvious passion for the subject matter really shows through :)
When I had my first PC, the cpu was a K6 233. It got so hot I changed it for a MMX just a week later.
The store were I bought it asked me what was the white paste I used on the heatsink, they had never seen this :)
The explanation is electronic is one of my hobbies, so it was logical for me to use thermal paste.
Things have changed ...
The progress indicator in dd may be just optional, "--status=progress" to get it , or something similar.
It's been years I didn't see a Knoppix running :)
Since you have many computers, I suggest you get a Lan bootable network card, for example a 3Com 3C590 PCI, and boot on network from it .
You can boot a full Linux Systemrescuecd, a dos floppy image. a memtest floppy image, Plop boot manager to boot from USB, even on old computers, etc..
Of course, you need a dhcp / tftp / nfs or apache on any Linux/BSD machine.
I usually use the ‘status=progress’ flag on recent versions of dd, but this old version didn’t like it.
I do like the idea of having a boot server. Good thing I have a full 25U server rack at the house!
@@miketech1024 It should be enough, I just use an old laptop hidden in a closet :)
I forget to write you can have a multiboot using boot on lan, so you can choose.
Nice one 👍 😊 Had a day from hell and a killer migraine, but this cheered me up a bit 😄
Thanks!!
@@miketech1024 😉👍👍
A trip down memory lane, my computer experience started with 286 and Dos 3 ish, I remember these 386 internals well, lots of happy hours spent tinkering with this type of machine back in the day.
Great video, I found myself checking your channel throughout the week to see if I'd missed anything after that load of relics you got last video.
I'm quite impressed by how far back and how extensive your knowledge is. And yet, you look like you're 10 years younger than me, what gives!
I loved the rubber ducky and your Patreon tier labels lol! Also whoever's sick I hope they got well quickly!
Thanks! I became intensely interested in the technical side of computers at around 5 years old, so I’ve been in tech nearly my entire life.
Don’t worry, the ‘Get Well Soon’ card is for the battery-damaged VLB motherboard. It needed a little support in this trying time. 😂
@@miketech1024 I'm enjoying every bit of your videos! It's very nostalgic but also a ton of things I've never seen before or I've never seen done before.
Lol the VLB board was very sick!
@@miketech1024 Dude, Vesa Local Bus must be older than you are!
Love those cases, i gotta find one.
great video :)
I remember using some of those cases on my builds back then. 👍
Hope Nana's video card becomes a recurring thing lol. Also they make modern coin cell battery adaptors that fit into the socket of a Dallas RTC, so there's no need to buy a brand new Dallas RTC, meaning it more or less will function like any other PC at that point.
This was a great video. Thank you
45:44 Date YY/MM/DD is very normal .... in Europe ;-) It is also easy sorting.
Loved watching what you did with this haul. Love that they went to a great home! We'll reach out when we get more, cheers!
Love this channel... and all the old PC's
Awesome video dude!
I love the dedication to repairing that 486 board. Most people would have just tossed it.
Thanks! I'd never forgive myself for not trying to save a VLB 486!
I love this. Every one is like a little box of surprises!
That vx issue in win95 startup is easy to fix, you just need to reinstall Network device drivers and it will do the trick.
I’m gonna have to dust off some very old brain cells to get back into debugging Win9x!
I'm liking what I'm seeing from you so far with these old rigs, I'm subbing along for the ride 😀
26:33 Holy Explody Varta, Batman! Not sure what's worse, a Varta or a RIFA! LOL
It's no coincidence that both Varta and RIFA sound like the names of comic book supervillains...
00:23 At my workplace in the early '90s my supervisor's office computer used that same case. The brand name on it was Belmont, LOL. They must have used a million different brand names on that case.
I am amazed with your "no fear" attitude when your playing with these machines lol....... I would never play around like you do..... keep making vids please.
Thanks! Fortunately, I learned what not to do (the hard way) when I was a kid LOL.
Another great video, please keep it up! It helps scratch a bit of the retro PC itch I have.
My workplace trashed a bunch of old computers 😩 i wish i could have keept them
11:13
I take offense to floppy drives holding my disks at ransom, it's easier to get a CD out of a stuck drive, just need a paper clip, but those floppy drives are thieves sometimes.
I missed grabbing an old Dell CRT on Wednesday. Nothing fancy, black case, early 2000''s. Passed it on the way to work and when I came back through someone had thrown it face first onto the curb and smashed it. Love to know who did that, it looks like it was a nice little 15" monitor before that, still bummed about it. I am running out of space in my little duplex for this stuff tho, between car and computer parts.
Oof, what kind of person would do that to an innocent CRT? Somehow I have only 3 CRT monitors to my name (other than my AIO systems), with one being a 15” Dell. I would love to find more!
@@miketech1024 A lot of people smash stuff, I've saved things from being smashed / shot before.I have two CRT's. They came out of a ditch, one is a Viewsonic 19" and the other is some oddball off brand 17". The 17" has road rash on the face, but the screen isn't damaged. The View Sonic needs repairs, the case is kinda falling apart, it also had slugs on the screen when I got it. They weren't happy about being evicted.
I used to have a lot more but a certain deceased family member who shall remain unnamed threw them away along with a lot of other rare PC parts I had despite having me pay to leave them in a corner of a disused room for years. Haven't really built up the collection since then, too bummed missing my 19" trinitron 😆
@@DeadReckon I wish someone had saved me from my own stupidity when I threw a whole working computer out with the garbage, just because I didn't want to store it. I had the room.
The monitor was 17". I forget the make, some reputable brand. It was all working fine. Don't know wtf was the matter with me. :(
@@keithbrown7685 Used to be a time this stuff was disposable, I hung onto stuff because it's nostalgic for me. I really need to build me a Pentium MMX era system but I can't justify the absurd cost of parts these days.
@@DeadReckon Almost like trying to maintain a classic car. Money pit, that one. : )
The dead battery ought not to be a show-stopper. Just try saving and exiting the BIOS. Should work. You might have to set the hard drive types but it auto-detects so that's no problem. You should be able to get it booting no problem, you'd just be left with having to do the same thing every time you boot it.
@mike: about 5.25" drive - some drives you cannot close without floppy inside, it wasnt crysty it is working as it should, so it is normal for some drive that you cant close it without floppy :) I saw you were keep trying to close it without the disk, and you could damage it that way :) I was also stunned when i saw first 5.25" drive which was like that :)
Amazing! That's a superb ratio of working vs non working stuff! Looking fordward to the motherboard repair video. About the weird memory placement on the first PC, I'm pretty sure those AT cases can have the motherboard tray removed, they usually have one or two screws on the back. Too bad there were no ISA soundcards, no need for sound on those "office" machines xD!
Thanks! Unfortunately this case has the motherboard tray riveted into place. The crusty 486 case luckily has a removable tray, but I realized that after the fact. That is one of the many features I miss about AT cases!
@@miketech1024 Wow! I thought just the drive bays were riveted, that's common, but hey that's a great SS7 AT motherboard, it even looks like a "retro sleeper" build haha! Just for fun I'm doing something similar with an AT Pentium III motherboard and a Socket 370 P3 @ 1ghz on a slocket, from the outside it looks like a 386 😁😁
22:50 if you you exit the bios setup without saving the system will boot further even without the battery
I knew there had to be some weird trick to get around that - Thanks!
Loved that rubber duck in the bath 😂 BTW, about the mouse - while serial mice are hot-pluggable, they were not PnP, so you would have had to do some sort of search for new devices, or restarted the computer after plugging in the mouse. I think that was the reason Windows didn't recognize it while it worked just fine in DOS.
Love the content man, I could watch your videos all day! Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much!
Great channel and you'll go far with it 👍
I love this particular style of case, would love to find some of my own
Regarding the serial mouse; it wouldn't be detected until rebooting as the driver is loaded then; it's not plug and play like you can get by with a PS/2 mouse.
Again, amazing content, and skills, loving the resurrections!!!!!
Those old hard drives reminds me of a geiger counter or radiometer sound.
Dang, you voided the warranties on all of that 30 year old RAM by taking it out of the motherboard. lol
In all honesty, I love your videos. Fantastic haul, and I can't wait to see what mysteries the other PCs hold! Luckily no spiders this time!
Thanks! Oh I have zero doubt the spiders are taking up residence as we speak LOL.
the slow beeping sounded likeg a Heart monitor. would have been funny if it suddenly went to one long beep, and the PCU burned out with much sparkling and magic smoke.
"Ricky Ticky Ting- The valiant is dead!"
can say I have a few k6 500s myself, they were great cpus. Still love that GUI bios. sadly they didn't catch on, oddly I didn't see a similar interface again until I got a modern system.. I hate those batteries, I lost a stack of motherboards to these things because they leaked before I could get back to where I had the boards stored. nice memories with scandisk, a lot of time spent looking at that over the years lol. that was a nice keyboard passthrough, sadly I wish more of the at cases had them.